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University of New Orleans. Honors thesis. 1994.; University of New Orleans. Dept. of Anthropology.

Abstract/Introduction

The Calusa Indians are an extinct and lesser known culture whose original domain was approximately between Charlotte Harbor and the Ten Thousand Islands area in southwest Florida (fig. 1). The Calusa are somewhat unique in that, at least at the time of the first European contact early in the sixteenth century, they evidently maintained a complex chiefdom without the use of agriculture. They are also unique in that the chief maintained the practice of "royal" sibling marriage, a practice which is rare in the world, even among state level societies (see Hudson 1976:519; Goggin and Sturtevant 1964).

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Degree

B.A.

Degree Program

Anthropology

Department

Department of Anthropology

Thesis Advisor

Webb, Malcolm C.

Advisory Committee

Beavers, Richard C.; Mooney, Michael E.

Date Degree Awarded

1994;

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